Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions
Norman Finkelstein Interview with Frank Barat: BDS Campaign | Imperial College London, February 2012 |
Only in New York: The battle of the Park Slope Food Coop by Zack Munson, The Weekly Standard, Vol. 17, No. 29, April 9, 2012: ” I guess sometimes reason does prevail, even in a place that sells vegan marshmallows.”
Manipulation and Deception: The Anti-Israel “BDS” Campaign (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) by Alan Baker and Adam Shay, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem Issue Brief Vol. 12, No. 2, March 19, 2012
The Forrest Gump of Israeli Advocacy by Gidon Shaviv, The Algemeiner, March 14, 2012
Debunking BDS, Editorial, Jerusalem Post, March 4, 2012
Shrugging at BDS, Editorial, The Forward, February 17, 2012
Video: Campus Deligitimization is Successful, Myths & Facts, February 2, 2012
BDS and academia by Asaf Romirowsky and John R. Cohn, Jerusalem Post, January 30, 2012: “A close look at the BDS movement shows not legitimate criticism but a racist and anti-Semitic program.”
Noam Chomsky: BDS is “A Mistake,” September 2011 |
Boycott, divestment and sanctions, Bitterlemons International Edition 22, July 21, 2011
- BDS and limited boycotts: a distinction without a difference? by Gerald M. Steinberg
- For human rights advocates, supporting BDS is a no-brainer by Nadia Hijab
- Seeking signs of health by Samah Jaber
- BDS, the boycott law and Israel’s democracy by Naomi Chazan
Boycott this Boycott (on the Ahava boycott) by Rabbi Serge A. Lippe, Huffington Post, July 15, 2010
Survey of Campus BDS Finds Few Serious Cases: Activity Is Limited But Trend Is Up by Josh Nathan-Kazis, The Jewish Daily Forward, May 4, 2011
Yes, the Boycott of Israel Is Anti-Semitic by Jonathan S. Tobin, Commentary, April 7, 2011
Make Music, Not Boycotts: A Letter to Roger Waters by Kobi Oz, The Jewish Daily Forward, March 15, 2011
Divestment And Other Matters by Bernard Avishai, TPM Café, March 8, 2011
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Israel Apartheid Week, and efforts to combat it, begin by Jordana Horn, Jerusalem Post, March 7, 2011 [reviews the “BDS Sewer System” from NGO Monitor]
Quebec strikes a blow against anti-Israel heels by Barbara Kay, National Post (Canada), March 4, 2011
Buy Israel – Don’t Buy Settlements (They’re not the Same) by Dr. Moises Salinas-Fleitman and Theodore Bikel, Meretz USA, February 15, 2011 (see also: List of Products From Israeli Settlements)
Israeli Academia: The Rot Spreads by Kenneth Levin, The Oslo Syndrome, February 2, 2011
One doesn’t boycott the only free society in the Mideast by Bernard-Henri Lévy, Haaretz, January 28, 2011
BDS Emergency Medical Card
The Message of BDS by Joel Fishman, SPME Reviews and Recommendations, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, January 4,
2011 [review of French edition of Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights by Omar Barghouti]
“How Can You Defend Israel?” Part II by David Harris, Huffington Post, January 2, 2011
“How Can You Defend Israel?” by David Harris, Huffington Post, December 27, 2010
‘Tis the Season for BDS, NGO Monitor, December 23, 2010
Building a Political Firewall against the Assault on Israel’s Legitimacy: London as a Case Study, Reut Institute, November 2010 [pdf]
Three Israels: Why We Can’t Talk about BDS by Jo Ellen Green Kaiser, Zeek, November 30, 2010
The Delegitimization Dance by Julie Wiener, The Jewish Week, November 30, 2010
The Moral Argument Against BDS by Naftali Balanson, Zeek, November 29, 2010
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Ayalon: Boycott of Israel is boycott of peace process, Jerusalem Post, November 24, 2010
Hatem Bazian: Berkeley’s Israel Boycott Advocate by Cinnamon Stillwell and Rima Greene, FrontPage Magazine, November 10, 2010
Turning the tables on BDS by Gerald Steinberg and Jason Edelstein, Jerusalem Post, November 7, 2010
Battered by Boycotts by Julie Wiener, The Jewish Week (New York), October 13, 2010: What happens when a 7-year old’s Israel-themed birthday party becomes a political debate?
Standing up to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, a speech by Paul Howes to Zionist Federation of Australia conference in Melbourne, October 10 2010
Port Townsend: What Went Right by Jon Haber, Divest This!, September 24, 2010
What should we do about BDS? by Joel Magalnick, JT News, August 4, 2010
Campaigns to hurt Israeli economy really hurt Middle East peace by Jon Haber, Christian Science Monitor, September 16, 2010
“Anti-Israel campaigns to get big organizations to divest from the Israeli economy may make headlines, but their questionable tactics don’t appear to be working – and they don’t promote peace.”
Boycott the boycotters by Roz Rothstein and Roberta Seid, Jewish Journal, August 25, 2010
Boycott this Boycott (on the Ahava boycott) by Rabbi Serge A. Lippe, Huffington Post, July 15, 2010
Presbyterian Church Still One-Sided On Israel by Abraham H. Foxman, Huffington Post, July 15, 2010
Progressive? Then Don’t Boycott Israel by Ben S. Cohen, Huffington Post, June 25, 2010
The BDS Movement Promotes Delegitimization against Israel, Reut Institute, June 13, 2010 [a thorough analysis of the movement, including the important distinction between critics and delegitimizers]
Israeli Apartheid Week’s Distortion of Reality by Asher Susser, Jewish Policy Center, March 15, 2010
“The campaign against Israel is about dehumanization and elementary prejudice”
BDS by the Numbers by Jon Haber, Solomonia, March 5, 2010
The academic boycott campaign: Is it over? by Ben Cohen, Jerusalem Post, November 17, 2009
Delegitimizing the delegitimizers by Gil Troy, Israel Insider, November 13, 2009
British novelist Howard Jacobson on academic boycotts of Israel |
Boycott Israel? Norwegian University Must Decide by David Harris, The Huffington Post, November 8, 2009
Palestinian workers, unions don’t support BDS campaign, Trade Unions Linking Israel and Palestine (TULIP), November 6, 2009
Academics Against Israel and the Jews by Manfred Gerstenfeld (editor), Institute for Global Jewish Affairs, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA) [A 262-page book of essays by 20 authors on anti-Israel activities on campuses worldwide]
In the Diaspora: Suspended agitation by Samuel Freedman, Jerusalem Post, March 19, 2009
Israel Boycott Movement Gains Momentum by Mel Frykberg, IPS – Inter Press Service, March 3, 2009
Hampshire Divests from Israel, So Contributors Should Divest from Hampshire by Alan M. Dershowitz, The Investigative Project on Terrorism, February 13, 2009
The universities’ witch-hunt against the Jews by Melanie Phillips, Spectator, May 28, 2008
Tibet, the Holy Land, and Confused Priorities by Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein, The Christian Post, April 9, 2008
Divestment, No by MJ Rosenberg, IPF Friday #359, Israel Policy Forum, March 14, 2008
Israel boycott illegal and cannot be implemented, UCU tells members, University and College Union (UK), September 28, 2007
Britain’s UCU decides not to boycott Israel by Hagit Klaiman, YNetNews, September 28, 2007
Boycotting Israel: New pariah on the block, The Economist, September 13, 2007
The Ideological Foundations of the Boycott Campaign Against Israel by Ben Cohen, American Jewish Committee, September 2007
Why we should condemn the academic boycott of Israel by Matthew Harris, Liberal Democrat Voice, September 5, 2007
Esteemed UK university rejects boycott by Jonny Paul, Jerusalem Post, August 22, 2007
“Boycott Israeli Universities? Boycott Ours, Too!”, American Jewish Committee ad, New York Times, August 8, 2007 [Hundreds of college and university presidents signed a statement denouncing British academics' union's decision to promote a boycott of Israeli educational institutions.]
Do They Really Want to Boycott This?, Israel 21c, June 24, 2007
A Boycott Built on Bias, by Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times, June 17, 2007
“To single out Israeli universities alone for a punitive boycott is rank anti-Semitism.”
A letter to the British academic by Yair Lapid, YNetNews.com, June 12, 2007
Bigoted British Boycott by Alan M. Dershowitz, FrontPageMagazine.com, June 8, 2007
“Even Arab and Muslim journalists have more freedom of the press in Israel than in any Arab or Muslim nation.”
A call for moral outrage over the British boycott by Abraham H. Foxman, Jerusalem Post, June 13, 2007
Exposing the bigotry of UK anti-Israel boycotters by Amir Hanifes, Judeoscope, June 6, 2007
Malicious Boycotts (editorial), New York Times, June 3, 2007
“Critical thinking and well-thought-out criticism are intrinsic to good scholarship and good journalism. These boycotts represent neither.”
Dissecting the British academic boycott by Michael Horesh, Israel 21c, June 3, 2007
“If the UCU represents the best tradition of British academia, which has taken pride in its openness and progressiveness, the elected delegates of the members have taken a major step backwards towards selective teaching and predetermined research. Their decision will bring scorn upon itself and the community at large. It will damage those people they are supposedly seeking to help.”
Column One: As Europe self-destructs by Carolyn Glick, The Jerusalem Post, May 31, 2007 ["Wednesday's decision by Britain's University and College Union to call for a boycott of Israeli universities and colleges was not only hypocritical. It was suicidal. [....] By calling for a boycott of Israeli universities, Britain’s academic establishment is turning its back not only on Israel, but on Britain.”]
How to stop the UCU boycott – A strategy, Zionism and Israel News, May 31, 2007
If You’re Going to Boycott Israel, Do It Right by Barry Shaw, The Daily Sport, FrontPageMagazine.com, Thursday, December 28, 2006
Campus Hypocrisy by Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times, October 16, 2002
“Criticizing Israel is not anti-Semitic, and saying so is vile. But singling out Israel for opprobrium and international sanction — out of all proportion to any other party in the Middle East — is anti-Semitic, and not saying so is dishonest.”
A Challenge to House Master Hanson by Alan M. Dershowitz, Harvard Crimson, September 23, 2002
“[S]ingling out Israel, among all the countries in the world, for divestment, is an action which is anti-Semitic in effect, if not in intent.”
Resources
- StandWithUs flyers: “Divesting from Israel is dishonest, hypocritical and anti-Semitic,” “6 Reasons Why You Should Oppose Boycotts Against Israel“
- Global BDS Movement: Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions for Palestine
- NGOs and the BDS Movement: Background and Funding by NGO Monitor
- Divest This! — an entire blog devoted to countering the BDS movement
- BUYcott Israel — Canadian Web site and Facebook group for boycott alerts
- Engage classics
